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TIL when Sparta won the Peloponnesian War, the cities of Corinth and Thebes demanded that Athens should be destroyed and its citizens should be enslaved. Sparta refused, and took Athens into their own system. Athens was “to have the same friends and enemies” as Sparta.

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